The chairman of the state panel investigating admissions abuses at the University of Illinois stepped up his war of words on the school's trustees thi...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois trustee Lawrence Eppley offered his resignation Tuesday amid a growing scandal over the role of politic...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- University of Illinois President B. Joseph White on Monday told a commission investigating the effect of politics on school admis...

Ikenberry is one of the U of I people whom the chancellor asked to help him grease the skids so that the university's board chairman could win a six-figure job for his son-in-law-to-be.

The majority of students who benefited from political connections when applying to the University of Illinois attended elite, affluent high schools, a...

As two of the longest-serving University of Illinois trustees appeared Tuesday before a state panel investigating clout in admissions, the questioning...

Two college admissions experts who testified before the special commission this morning expressed surprise at the university's elaborate clouting syst...

Former presidents and chancellors of the University of Illinois are laying much of the blame for the current admissions scandal at the feet of trustee...

On the same day the former dean of the University of Illinois Law School testified to a state panel about political influence in admissions, a Congres...

Nearly a month after the Chicago Tribune exposed the influence of political clout in the admissions process at the University of Illinois, a group of ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman testified Monday that he had the best interests of the school in mind when he pushed ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A campaign adviser to state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias helped a politically connected applicant who'd been wait-listed get admitted t...

What does it cost to get an unqualified student into the University of Illinois law school? Five jobs for graduating law students, suggest internal e-...

(AP) The University of Illinois has raised tuition for freshman starting next fall by about 2.6 percent on each of its three campuses. University tru...

In records released last week, U. of I. officials blacked out Cubs broadcaster Ron Santo's name in an e-mail discussion about one of his Hall of Fame ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A newspaper that exposed the University of Illinois' practice of admitting some politically connected applicants despite low test scor...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A former federal judge is heading an independent state commission investigating the University of Illinois for admitting politically c...

Beer-sodden dolts and screeching ESPN announcers set the tone at our universities. And this is a far more serious problem than Speaker Madigan pulling wires to get the kids of a few of his political vassals admitted to the U. of I.

There are 69,000 people who work for public universities in Illinois, and none of them is paid as much as Ron Zook, the University of Illinois' footba...

Updated CHAMPAIGN -- The University of Illinois scrambled Friday to explain how politically connected applicants with less-than-stellar resumes -- in...

The state's economy went flat in November, based on a University of Illinois measure of sales, individual and corporate income-tax receipts. Universi...

The Blagojevich administration is asking Illinois' universities to place 2.5 percent of their budgets in reserves. The cuts mean four-year universitie...

After a banishment of nearly two years, Chief Illiniwek once again is putting on the buckskins, beads and turkey feathers. Since the University of Il...

A University of Illinois student group plans to hold a Chief Illiniwek rally at the Assembly Hall on campus next month. Students for Chief Illiniwek ...